Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System: CJEE Longitudinal File, 1971-1979, 1985, 1988 (ICPSR 7636)
Version Date: Nov 21, 1996 View help for published
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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07636.v6
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This survey provides criminal justice expenditure and employment (CJEE) data for all states and counties in the United States, certain municipal governments, and Puerto Rico. Specific variables include full- and part-time employees and payroll, expenditures for current operations, capital outlay, equipment, construction, land, and contributions to employee benefits, and intergovernmental expenditures paid to state and local governments. Sectors represented in this survey include police protection, judicial, legal services and prosecution, public defense, corrections, and other criminal justice services.
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(1) This collection was originally titled EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: LONGITUDINAL FILE, 1971-1979, 1985, 1988. (2) Data for 1971-1979, 1985, and 1988 of this collection were also released as EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: CJEE INDIVIDUAL UNITS FILE AND ESTIMATES FILE, 1971-1979 (ICPSR 7618), EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: CJEE INDIVIDUAL UNITS FILE AND ESTIMATES FILE, 1985 (ICPSR 8650), and EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: CJEE INDIVIDUAL UNITS AND ESTIMATES FILE, 1988 (ICPSR 9446). (3) Data were not collected for Puerto Rico nor campus police after 1979.
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All 50 state governments, a sample of local governments within each state, and special campus police of public universities and colleges. The sample includes all county governments, all municipalities with populations of 10,000 or more, a probability sample of cities and townships with populations of less than 10,000 selected according to the relative size of annual expenditures. Each case was assigned a weight based on its probability of selection.
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All state and county governments, all municipal and township governments, and special campus police of public universities and colleges in the United States.
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official state and local records, self-enumerated forms, BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, FISCAL YEAR 1987, APPENDIX, and BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, FISCAL YEAR 1990
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1984-03-18
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2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: CJEE LONGITUDINAL FILE, 1971-1979, 1985, 1988. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 6th ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1996. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07636.v6
1996-11-21 SAS and SPSS data definition statements are now available for this collection.
1984-03-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
ICPSR usually offers files in multiple formats for researchers to be able to access data and documentation in formats that work well within their needs. If you have questions about the accessibility of materials distributed by ICPSR or require further assistance, please visit ICPSR’s Accessibility Center.

This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
